T. S. Eliot's Dialectical Imagination - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook T. S. Eliot's Dialectical Imagination write by Jewel Spears Brooker. This book was released on 2018-11-15. T. S. Eliot's Dialectical Imagination available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What principles connect—and what distinctions separate—“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” The Waste Land, and Four Quartets? The thought-tormented characters in T. S. Eliot’s early poetry are paralyzed by the gap between mind and body, thought and action. The need to address this impasse is part of what drew Eliot to philosophy, and the failure of philosophy to appease his disquiet is the reason he gave for abandoning it. In T. S. Eliot’s Dialectical Imagination, Jewel Spears Brooker argues that two of the principles that Eliot absorbed as a PhD student at Harvard and Oxford were to become permanent features of his mind, grounding his lifelong quest for wholeness and underpinning most of his subsequent poetry. The first principle is that contradictions are best understood dialectically, by moving to perspectives that both include and transcend them. The second is that all truths exist in relation to other truths. Together or in tandem, these two principles—dialectic and relativism—constitute the basis of a continual reshaping of Eliot’s imagination. The dialectic serves as a kinetic principle, undergirding his impulse to move forward by looping back, and the relativism supports his ingrained ambivalence. Brooker considers Eliot’s poetry in three blocks, each represented by a signature masterpiece: “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” The Waste Land, and Four Quartets. She correlates these works with stages in the poet’s intellectual and spiritual life: disjunction, ambivalence, and transcendence. Using a methodology that is both inductive—moving from texts to theories—and comparative—juxtaposing the evolution of Eliot’s mind as reflected in his philosophical prose and the evolution of style as seen in his poetry—Brooker integrates cultural and biographical contexts. The first book to read Eliot’s poems alongside all of his prose and letters, T. S. Eliot’s Dialectical Imagination will revise received readings of his mind and art, as well as of literary modernism.
T. S. Eliot's Dialectical Imagination
T. S. Eliot's Dialectical Imagination - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook T. S. Eliot's Dialectical Imagination write by Jewel Spears Brooker. This book was released on 2018-11-15. T. S. Eliot's Dialectical Imagination available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Eliot’s Dialectical Imagination will revise received readings of his mind and art, as well as of literary modernism.
Metaphors of Confinement
Metaphors of Confinement - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Metaphors of Confinement write by Monika Fludernik. This book was released on 2019. Metaphors of Confinement available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Metaphors of Confinement: The Prison in Fact, Fiction, and Fantasy offers a historical survey of imaginings of the prison as expressed in carceral metaphors in a range of texts about imprisonment from Antiquity to the present as well as non-penal situations described as confining or restrictive. These imaginings coalesce into a 'carceral imaginary' that determines the way we think about prisons, just as social debates about punishment and criminals feed into the way carceral imaginary develops over time. Examining not only English-language prose fiction but also poetry and drama from the Middle Ages to postcolonial, particularly African, literature, the book juxtaposes literary and non-literary contexts and contrasts fictional and nonfictional representations of (im)prison(ment) and discussions about the prison as institution and experiential reality. It comments on present-day trends of punitivity and foregrounds the ethical dimensions of penal punishment. The main argument concerns the continuity of carceral metaphors through the centuries despite historical developments that included major shifts in policy (such as the invention of the penitentiary). The study looks at selected carceral metaphors, often from two complementary perspectives, such as the home as prison or the prison as home, or the factory as prison and the prison as factory. The case studies present particularly relevant genres and texts that employ these metaphors, often from a historical perspective that analyses development through different periods.
Hegel's Theory of Imagination
Hegel's Theory of Imagination - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hegel's Theory of Imagination write by Jennifer Ann Bates. This book was released on 2012-02-01. Hegel's Theory of Imagination available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Filling an important gap in post-Kantian philosophy, Hegel's Theory of Imagination focuses on the role of the imagination, and resolves the question of its apparent absence in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit. Jennifer Ann Bates discusses Hegel's theory of the imagination through the early and late Philosophy of Spirit lectures, and reveals that a dialectic between the two sides of the imagination (the "night" of inwardizing consciousness and the "light" of externalizing material) is essential to thought and community. The complexity and depth of Hegel's insights make this book essential reading for anyone seriously interested in understanding how central the imagination is to our every thought.
George Eliot's Feminism
George Eliot's Feminism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook George Eliot's Feminism write by June Szirotny. This book was released on 2015-04-14. George Eliot's Feminism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The question of whether or not George Eliot was what would now be called a feminist is a contentious one. This book argues, through a close study of her fiction, informed by examination of her life's story and by a comparison of her views to those of contemporary feminists, that George Eliot was more radical and more feminist than commonly thought.
